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New NOSAMS Director – Susan Lang
After 7 years of distinguished service, Dr. Mark Kurz has stepped down as NOSAMS Director and Dr. Susan Lang has taken up the post. The staff is very grateful to Mark who helped steer the facility through key staffing changes, the pandemic, and a successful proposal to the NSF Major Research Initiative to fund a…
Read MoreUSAMS Decommissioned
In preparation for the installation of a new AMS system, we had to dismantle the USAMS system in December 2021 after 30 years of operations. We have retained the USAMS hybrid ion source and low energy magnet.
Read MoreSNEAP2021
NOSAMS is pleased to host the 2021 Symposium of Northeastern Accelerator Personnel (SNEAP). The meeting is May 3-5 and will be virtual. SNEAP is a community of personnel involved with electrostatic particle accelerators and their use. Founded in 1968, the organization gathers annually to discuss and exchange information to the benefit of all who attend.…
Read MoreCOVID-19 Update 2
As COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts have declined, WHOI is beginning it’s phased opening plan. The institution will be open, but the campuses will still be closed and open only to those that have been approved. NOSAMS continues to be open and to operate with a partial staff in this new re-opening phase while respecting conservative physical…
Read MoreFormer NOSAMS graduate student intern publishes work on estimates of permafrost carbon emissions
Jenny Bowen, a graduate student from the University of Michigan, was awarded a graduate student internship with NOSAMS last year and worked with NOSAMS researchers, Josh Burton and Li Xu. Bowen, along with Rose Cory (University of Michigan) and Colin Ward (WHOI), investigated the radiocarbon age of carbon dioxide produced during the oxidation of permafrost…
Read MoreNew work from Sophie Hage et al. on Terrestrial OM Preservation in Sediments
Sophie Hage is a postgraduate research student studying Sedimentology within Ocean and Earth Science in the National Oceanography Centre at the Southampton at the University of Southampton. From March to June in 2018 she was a guest student here at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution working with Dr. Valier Galy. While here at WHOI working…
Read MoreJonathan Sanderman’s work on soils using RPO
Jon Sanderman visited the lab in 2019 to use the RPO on a series of soil profiles sampled decadally since the 1960’s. Did you know that the RPO was originally called the dirt burner? His paper is now out: Ramped thermal analysis for isolating biologically meaningful soil organic matter fractions with distinct residence times
Read MoreNew publications from two former NOSAMS guest students
Jessie Pearl started as a MIT/WHOI joint program student under Jeff Donnelly and Kevin Anchukaitis. Jessie worked with NOSAMS to do help develop reconnaissance radiocarbon dating- a method to get quick radiocarbon results at a lower cost and at a reduced precision- for organic carbon samples. She finished her PhD at the University of Arizona…
Read MoreCOVID-19 Update
NOSAMS is open and operating with minimal staff while respecting conservative social distancing as outlined by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and WHOI policies. We are accepting and processing samples and do not expect an increase in turnaround times as a result of COVID-19. We welcome questions or comments at nosams@whoi.edu.
Read MoreThe Atlantic highlights NOSAMS in an article about nuclear weapons testing
The Atlantic writer Carl Zimmer writes about the events that lead to the radiocarbon “bomb spike”, the lasting mark it has left in this world, and how scientists are studying it. The article features work from Researcher Mary Lardie Gaylord et al. and their work on radiocarbon dating tree rings on a European beech tree…
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